this is the cycle of fascism. they identify an enemy, blame them for a problem, and exact retribution. but the problem remains, because the enemy was always a scapegoat, so a new enemy must be identified, and the cycle continues.
Cartoon from 3 years ago, back when the existence of Dominic Cummings still hung like an annoying cloud of piss over our heads. How far we've come since then.
Switzerland has many ways to attract tourists. However, I feel it may struggle to get very many on the basis that on April Fool’s Day 1944 a USAF pilot thought ‘I’m north of the Rhine, Germany is north of the Rhine, ergo I should drop some bombs on that large town down there.’
well I'm in floods of tears www.thetimes.com/article/5ecd...
When Mats Steen died from a muscle-wasting disorder, his parents believed that his life had been a tragically lonely one — until hundreds of emails from strangers arrived. It turns out that he’d found...
jesus. how well do you think Great British Industry is going to work when the factory floor is under water?
People forget (or frankly never bothered to learn) that many, many Jews don’t have generational wealth. The Nazis *very literally stole* all Jewish assets. And before that we are a people who spent thousands of years on the run. If only we had a dollar for all our generational trauma!
Abortion bounties, book bans, forcing families with trans kids to flee their homes: Republicans are building a model of govt that forces people to live and act how conservatives want, enforced by the fear that anyone can be an informant. A Snitch State (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.
It is so gratifying, when you’re in Germany, trying to buy something in German, and even after “hallo” they recognise that your command of the language is such a disaster that they respond in English to save themself the bother of bamboozling you with terms like “vier Euro bitte”. Cheers lads!